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With VGA / SCSI / LAN OPERATION MANUAL COPYRIGHT NOTICE This operation manual is meant to assist both Embedded Computer manufacturers and end users in installing and setting up the system. The information contained in this document is subject to change without any notice.
CHAPTER INTRODUCTION This chapter gives you the information for PC-620-G4. It also outlines the System specifications. Section includes: About This Manual System Specifications Safety precautions Experienced users can skip to chapter 2 on page 2-1 for Quick Start. Page:1-1...
Chapter 1 Introduction 1-1. ABOUT THIS MANUAL Thank you for procuring our PC-620-G4 Socket 370 Embedded Card with SCSI/VGA/LAN, which is fully PC / AT compatible. The PC-620-G4 provides faster processing speed, greater expandability and can handle more tasks than before. This manual is designed to assist you on how to install and set up the system.
PC/AT type mini DIN connector. Support PC/AT Keyboard or PS/2 Mouse by jumper selection. 5-pin External keyboard connector. BUS SUPPORT : External ISA/PCI BUS (PICMG Spec.) Internal PCI Bus for VGA, IDE, LAN, & SCSI. PC-104 BUS. PC-620-G4 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 1-3...
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32-pin SSD socket on board, supports up to 144MB Disk-on-chip. USB CONNECTOR : Universal Serial Bus Connector on board, supports up to two USB ports. LAN ADAPTER : Realtek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet 10/100 Base-T PCI-BUS Wake On LAN support. PC-620-G4 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 1-4...
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Support monitoring function for Voltage, CPU temperature, and cooling fan. LED INDICATOR : System power. Hard Disk access. Turbo mode. LAN Led indicator. PC-104 BUS EXPANSION & SPEED : 8MHz PC-104 8MHz PCI Bus 33Mhz 12Mbit/sec DMA CONTROLLER : 82C37 x 2 PC-620-G4 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 1-5...
3. Disconnect power when you change any hardware devices. For instance, when you connect a jumper or install any cards, a surge of power may damage the electronic components or the whole system. PC-620-G4 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: 1-6...
PIN2 & PIN3 to create another setting. The same jumper diagrams are applied all through this manual. The figures on the next following page will show you what the manual diagrams look like and what they represent. ’ Page: 2-4 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
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Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration JUMPER DIAGRAMS JUMPER SETTINGS ’ Page: 2-5 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
The COM1 Connector assignments are as follows : ASSIGNMENT COM 1 COM2 : COM2 Connector The COM2 Connector assignments are as follows : ASSIGNMENT RS-232 RS-422 RS-485 COM 2 RTS- RTS+ CTS+ CTS- ’ Page: 2-6 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
The pin assignments are as follows: ASSIGNMENT PWR ON GROUND 5V SB 2-8. ATX POWER BUTTON JP12 : ATX Power Button The pin assignments are as follows: ASSIGNMENT Pull Low PWR BTN Switch ’ Page: 2-8 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
2-10. UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS CONNECTOR USB: Universal Serial Bus Connector USB connector of this board can support two USB ports. The pin assignments are as follows: ASSIGNMENT DATA0- DATA0+ CGND DATA1- DATA1+ CGND ’ Page: 2-9 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2-11. SOLID-STATE DISK SOCKET SSD: 32pin Disk-on-chip Socket The pin assignments are as follows: ASSIGNMENT ASSIGNMENT SA12 SA10 SA11 ’ Page: 2-10 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
ROM SSD can be install as one of user’s hard disk drive. The SSD Memory Mapping Selection are as follows: JUMPER SETTINGS SELECTIONS JUMPER (pins closed) ILLUSTRATION CC000h-CDFFFh D0000h-D1FFFh D4000h-D5FFFh D8000h-D9FFFh DC000h-DDFFFh E0000h-E1FFFh *** Manufactory default --- CC000h-CDFFFh ’ Page: 2-11 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
ASSIGNMENT GROUND RESET 2-17. HARD DISK DRIVE LED CONNECTOR HDL : Hard Disk Drive LED Connector The pin assignments are as follows : ASSIGNMENT HDD Active Signal HDD Active Signal HDD Active Signal ’ Page: 2-13 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
SYSFAN : System Fan connector The pin assignments are as follows: ASSIGNMENT +12V SYSFAN 2-20. EXTERNAL SPEAKER CONNECTOR SPK : External Speaker Connector The pin assignments are as follows : ASSIGNMENT Speaker Signal Speaker Signal Speaker Signal ’ Page: 2-14 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
34-pin flat cable to attach the FDD connector on-board, and the other side is to attaches the two FDDs. The pin assignments are as follows : ASSIGNMENT ASSIGNMENT INDEX MTR0 DRV1 DRV0 MTR1 STEP WDATA WGATE TRK0 WRPRT RDATA DSKCHG ’ Page: 2-15 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2-22. HARD DISK DRIVE CONNECTOR IDE1: Hard Disk Drive Connector The PC-620-G4 has two HDD connectors on-board, IDE1 and IDE2. The pin assignments are as follows: ASSIGNMENT ASSIGNMENT IDERST IDEREQ0 IDED7 IDEIOW IDED8 IDED6 IDEIOR IDED9...
Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2-23. VGA CRT CONNECTOR VGA : VGA CRT Connector The pin assignments are as follows: ASSIGNMENT GREEN BLUE HSYNC VSYNC ’ Page: 2-18 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
LCD : LCD Panel Connector The connector LCD is a 51-pin, dual-in-line header used for Flat Panel displays. The pin assignments are as follows : ASSIGNMENT ASSIGNMENT LCD VDD LCDVDD VDDSAFE VDDSAFE ENABKL SHFCLK ENVEE 12VSAFE 12VSAFE ’ Page: 2-19 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
LCD+12V LCD VDD (+5V/3.3V) Pin 3 will depend on the jumper set on LCD VDD selection. Therefore when this connector is used, user should remember to set the jumper on LCD VDD selection ’ Page: 2-20 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
ASSIGNMENT ASSIGNMENT AUTFE ERROR INIT SLCTIN BUSY SLCT 2-28. POWER LED & KEYLOCK CONNECTOR KBL : Power LED & Keylock Connector The pin assignments are as follows : ASSIGNMENT POWER LED KB INH ’ Page: 2-21 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2-29. SCSI CONNECTOR The PC-620-G4 is equips with two SCSI Connectors, the SCSI II &ULTRA. The SCSI II is a 50 pins dual-in-line header, ULTRA is a 68 pins dual-in- line header. The pin assignments are as follows :...
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PCI Bus Master is occupied. The SCSI Bus Master (DRQ3) is same as 4th PCI Slot on the backplane (DRQ3). When the SCSI chipset is on-board, the 4th PCI slot on backplane would fail even if SCSI function is disabled. ’ Page: 2-23 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
ASSIGNMENT ISOLATED GND ISOLATED GND ISOLATED GND ISOLATED GND 2-31. LAN LED INDICATOR PC-620-G4 possesses 3 LAN Led Indicator, namely : LED1, LED2, and LED3. The pin assignments are as follows: LED1: LAN Led Indicator ASSIGNMENT Pull Hi Link LED2: LAN Led Indicator...
Chapter 2 Hardware Configuration 2-32. GREEN FUNCTION CONNECTOR GRN: Green Function Connector The pin assignments are as follows: ASSIGNMENT EXTSMI- 2-33. MEMORY INSTALLATION The PC-620-G4 can support 2 SDRAM banks. DRAM BANK CONFIGURATION DIMM 1 DIMM 2 TOTAL MEMORY 128M 128M...
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CHAPTER SOFTWARE UTILITIES This chapter comprises the detailed information of VGA driver, LAN driver and Flash BIOS update. It also describes how to install the watchdog timer configuration. Section includes: VGA Driver Utility Flash BIOS Update LAN Driver Utility SCSI Driver Utility Watchdog Timer Configuration Page: 3-1...
Chapter 3 Software Configuration 3-1. INTRODUCTION Enclosed with our PC-620-G4 package is our driver utility, which may comes in a form of a CD ROM disc or floppy diskettes. For CD ROM disc user, you will only need some of the files contained in the CD ROM disc,...
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PROPERTIES window, then choose the SETTING tab, then DISPLAY TYPE. (3). In the CHANGE DISPLAY TYPE window, click on the CHANGE button in the ADAPTER TYPE, this will bring up the SELECT DEVICE window. ′ Page:3-3 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
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(vii) When the Display Driver Install window appears, select PRIMARY DISPLAY, and click OK. (viii) When the Primary Display Driver List window appears, select “Chips and Technologies 69000” from the list of Adapter types, then select OK to install the video driver. ′ Page:3-4 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
Utility Disk for system BIOS and VGA BIOS update. 3-3-2. To update VGA BIOS for LCD Flat Panel Display: As PC-620-G4 user, you have to update the VGA BIOS for your specific LCD flat panel you are going to use. For doing this, you need two files.
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File Name to Program: 620xxxxx.bin Checksum: XXXXX Reset System or Power off to accomplish update process! F1: Reset F10: Exit Please reset or power off the system, and then the Flash BIOS is fully implemented. ′ Page:3-6 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
Chapter 3 Software Configuration 3-4. LAN DRIVER UTILITY 3-4-1. Introduction PC-620-G4 Embedded Card is enhanced with LAN function that can support various network adapters. Installation programs for LAN drivers are listed as follows: 1. Win 95/98/2000 program 2. Win NT program 3.
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Ethernet ID. Last step to select OK and close NETWORK SETUP. Select SKIP if only one adapter is installed on this computer. For more information on installation procedure, please refer to TXT directory found on LAN DRIVER UTILITY. ′ Page:3-8 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
PC-620 embedded with SCSI Adaptec 7890 can support SCSI II and Ultra2 Wide SCSI. Installation programs for SCSI drivers are provided as follows: For Installation procedure, please refer to Readme.txt file on SCSI DRIVER UTILITY. ′ Page:3-9 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
OUT DX, AX Watchdog disable program: MOV AX, 000FH (this value can be ignored) MOV DX, 0441H OUT DX, AX The Watchdog Timer control table is as follows: Level Value Time/sec Level Value Time/sec ′ Page:3-10 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
CHAPTER GREEN PC FUNCTION This chapter gives you the concise information for Green PC Function. Sections include: Power Saving Block Diagram CPU Doze Mode System STANDBY Mode System SUSPEND Mode Page: 4-1...
3. Level 1 cache are disabled. 4. VGA monitor displays blank screen. 5. Fixed disk driver motor will be spin off. 6. Any activity occurs, system will exit from Standby mode to On mode. ′ Page: 4-2 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
5. Fixed disk driver motor will be spin off. 6. Monitor activity according to the setting of Advanced Setup. 7. When system in Suspend mode, only Keyboard / Mouse / Alarm resume can wakeup system. ′ Page: 4-3 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
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Chapter 4 Green PC Function ′ Page: 4-4 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
CHAPTER AWARD BIOS SETUP This chapter states out how to set up the Award BIOS. Sections include: Introduction Entering Setup The Standard CMOS Setup The BIOS Features Setup The Chipset Features Setup Power Management Setup PNP/PCI Configuration Load BIOS/Setup defaults Integrated Peripherals Password Setting IDE HDD Auto Detection...
5-1. INTRODUCTION This chapter will show you the function of a BIOS in managing the features of your system. The PC-620-G4 Socket 370 Embedded Card is equipped with the BIOS for system chipset from Award Software Inc. This page briefly explains the function of the BIOS in managing the special features of your system.
As you highlight each item, a brief description of that item's function appears in the lower window. If you have a coloured monitor you can use the Shift F2 keys to scroll through the various color combinations available. ′ Page: 5-3 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
< Hour >, < Minute >, and < Second >. Use 24 hour clock format, i.e., for PM numbers, add 12 to the hour. For examples, 4: 30 P.M. You should enter the time as 16:30:00. ′ Page: 5-4 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
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Precomp is the read delay circuitry which takes into account the timing differences between the inner and outer edges of the surface of the disk platter. The number designates the starting cylinder of the signal. ′ Page: 5-5 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
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This item determines whether the computer will stop when error is detected during power up. The available options are No errors, All errors, All, But keyboard, All, but Diskette, and All, But Disk/Key. ′ Page: 5-6 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
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1024 65535 1023 1024 65535 1023 1024 65535 1023 1024 65535 1023 1024 65535 1023 65535 1023 65535 1024 65535 1023 1024 65535 1023 65535 65535 65335 AUTO Award Hard Disk Type Table ′ Page: 5-7 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
A brief introduction of each setting is given below: VIRUS WARNING: When Enabled, the BIOS will supervise the boot sector and partition table of the hard disk drive for any attempt for modification. ′ Page: 5-8 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
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1Mbytes. Initially the gate A20 was handled via a pin on the keyboard. Today, while keyboards still provide this support, it is more common and much faster for the system chipset to provide support for gate A20. ′ Page: 5-9 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
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This entry determines whether the MPEG ISA/VESA VGA Cards can work with PCI/VGA or not. OS SELECT FOR DRAM >64MB: This item allows you to access the memory that over 64MB in OS/2. You may choose OS2 or Non-OS2. ′ Page: 5-10 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
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Video Shadow will increase the video speed. C8000-CBFFF SHADOW ~ DC000-DFFFF SHADOW: These categories determine whether option ROMs will be copied to RAM. An example of such option ROM would be support of onboard SCSI. ′ Page: 5-11 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
Auto Configuration selects predetremined optimal values of chipset parameters. When disabled, chipset parameters revert to setup information stored in CMOS. Many fields in this screen are not available when Auto Configuration is Enabled. ′ Page: 5-12 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
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When enabled, all CPU cycles to SDRAM result in an All Banks Precharge Command on the SDRAM interface. DRAM DATA INTEGRITY MODE: Select parity or ECC (error-correcting code), according to the type of installed DRAM. ′ Page: 5-13 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
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ISA cards. This memory must be mapped into the memory space below 16MB. PASSIVE RELEASE: When Enabled, CPU to PCI bus accesses is allowed during passive release. Otherwise, the arbiter only accepts another PCI master access to local DRAM. ′ Page: 5-14 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
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This item displays the current CPU temperature, if your computer contains a monitoring system. CURRENT CPUFAN1/CPUFAN2 SPEED: This item indicate the current speed of the CPU fans, if your computer contains a monitoring system. SHUTDOWN TEMPERATURE: This item select the shutdown temperature. ′ Page: 5-15 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
Power Management (ACPI). POWER MANAGEMENT: This item allows you to select the type (or degree) of power saving and is directly related to HDD power down, Doze Mode, Standby Mode, and Suspend Mode. ′ Page: 5-16 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
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SUSPEND MODE: When enabled and after the set time of system inactivity, all devices except the CPU will be shut off. ′ Page: 5-17 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
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When enabled, an event occurring on each device listed below restarts the global timer for Standby mode. IRQ[3-7, 9-15], NMI Primary IDE 0 Primary IDE 1 Secondary IDE 0 Secondary IDE 1 Floppy Disk Serial Port Parallel Port ′ Page: 5-18 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
You can manually configure the PnP/PCI Device’s IRQ. Highlight the selected item and pressing the <F1> key, all the options for the desired selection will be displayed for choice. ′ Page: 5-19 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
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PCI/ISA PnP Devices complaint with the Plug and Play standard, whether designed for PCI or ISA bus architecture. USED MEM BASE ADDR: Select a base address for the memory area used by any peripheral that requires high memory. ′ Page: 5-20 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
Load BIOS Default ( Y / N ) ? Y To use the BIOS defaults, change the prompt to "Y" and press < Enter >, the CMOS is load automatically when you power on the PC-620-G4. 5-9. LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS AUTO CONFIGURATION WITH SETUP DEFAULTS This Main Menu item uses the default SETUP values.
Block mode is also called block transfer, multiple commands, or multiple sector read/write. If your IDE hard drive supports block mode (most new drives do), select Enabled for automatic detection of the optimal number of block read/writes per sector the drive can support. ′ Page: 5-22 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
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ONBOARD UART1: ONBOARD UART2: Select a logical COM port name and matching address for the first and second serial ports. Select an address and corresponding interrupt for the first and second serial ports. ′ Page: 5-23 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
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Select an operating mode for the onboard parallel (printer) port. Select Normal, Compatible, or SPP unless you are certain your hardware and software both support one of the other available modes. For more information about parallel port modes, see http://www.fapo.com/1284int.htm. ′ Page: 5-24 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
〝PASSWORD SETTING〞a message will appear at the center. PASSWORD DISABELD!!! Press any key to continue... Press < Enter > and the password will be disabled. Once the password is disabled, you can enter Setup freely. ′ Page: 5-25 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
3. Enter Y or N to confirm the acceptance of the parameter reported by BIOS, then press the <ENTER> key. The process will repeat again for Primary Slave, Secondary Master and Secondary Slave Hard Disks. ′ Page: 5-26 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
You may call up the setup program at any time to adjust any of the individual items by pressing the <Del> key during boot up. ′ Page: 5-27 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
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Quit Without Saving (Y/N) ? Y LOAD BIOS DE SAVING LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS ↑↓→← Esc : Quit : Select Item F10 : Save & Exit Setup (Shift)F2 : Change Color Abandon all Datas & Exit SETUP ′ Page: 5-28 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
APPENDIX EXPANSION BUS This appendix indicates the pin assignments. Section includes: PC-104 Connector Pin Assignment ISA BUS Pin Assignment PCI BUS Pin Assignment Page: A-1...
Appendix A EXPANSION BUS ISA BUS PIN ASSIGNMENT There are two edge connector (called “gold fingers“) on this CPU Card, on the right hand is ISA Bus connector, followed up by PCI BUS connector. The ISA- bus connector is divided into two sets : one consists of 62 pins; the other consists of 36 pins.
Appendix B Technical Summary BLOCK DIAGRAM ISA INTERFACE CNTL ADD / DATA CNTL DATA CNTL DATA CNTL ADD / DATA ADDR DATA ADDR CNTL CNTL ADD / DATA ADDR CNTL ADD / DATA PC-620-G4 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: B-2...
Appendix B TECHNICAL SUMMARY INTERRUPT MAP ASSIGNMENT System TIMER Keyboard Cascade for IRQ 8-15 Serial port 2 Serial port 1 Available Floppy Parallel port 1 RTC clock Available Available Available PS/2 Mouse Math coprocessor IDE1 IDE2 PC-620-G4 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: B-3...
Extension memory low byte Extension memory high byte Reserved for extension memory low byte Reserved for extension memory high byte Date Century byte Information Flag 34-3F Reserve 40-7f Reserved for Chipset Setting Data PC-620-G4 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: B-4...
Timer Channel Map : Timer Channel Assignment System timer interrupt DRAM Refresh request Speaker tone generator DMA Channel Map : DMA Channel Assignment Available Available Floppy Available Cascade for DMA controller 1 Available Available Available PC-620-G4 USER ′ S MANUAL Page: B-5...
APPENDIX TROUBLE SHOOTING This section outlines the errors that may occur when you operate the system. It also gives you the suggestions on solving the problems. Section includes: Trouble Shooting for Error Messages Trouble Shooting for POST Code Page: C-1...
When you can‘t find the boot device, insert a system disk into Drive A and press < Enter >. Make sure both the controller and cables are all in proper positions, also make sure the disk is formatted correct device. Then reboot the system. ′ Page: C-2 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
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Memory has been added or removed since the last boot. In EISA mode use Configuration Utility to re-configure the memory configuration. In ISA mode enter Setup and enter the new memory size in the memory fields. ′ Page: C-3 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
03 : Initialize all the standard devices with default values Standard devices includes : DMA controller (8237). Programmable Interrupt Controller (8259). Programmable Interval Timer (8254). RTC chip. 05 : 1.Keyboard Controller Self-Test. 2.Enable Keyboard Interface. ′ Page: C-4 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
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0D : 1. Program some of the Chipset‘s value according to Setup. (Early Setup Value Program). 2. Measure CPU speed for display & decide the system clock speed. 3. Video initialization including Monochrome ,CGA, EGA/VGA. If no display device found, the speaker will beep. ′ Page: C-5 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
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2.Program all onboard super I/O chips (if any) including COM ports, LPT ports, FDD port..according to setup value. 3C : Set flag to allow users to enter CMOS Setup Utility. 3D : 1 Initialize Keyboard. 2 Install PS2 mouse. ′ Page: C-6 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
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-assign I/O, Memory, IRQ & DMA TO PnP ISA devices. -initialize all PnP ISA ROMs. 4. Program shadows RAM according to Setup settings. 5. Program parity according to Setup setting. 6. Power Management Initialization. -Enable/Disable global PM. -APM interface initialization. ′ Page: C-7 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
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(PnP BIOS only). 2. Clear memory that have been used. 3. Boot system via INT 19H. FF : System Booting. this means that the BIOS already pass the control right to the operating system. ′ Page: C-8 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
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Appendix C Trouble Shooting ′ Page: C-9 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
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Appendix C Trouble Shooting PRINTED IN TAIWAN ′ Page: C-10 PC-620-G4 USER S MANUAL...
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